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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal

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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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3

A true man hates no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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4

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Camille Paglia

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5

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

Men
6

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Germaine Greer

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7

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Quentin Crisp

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8

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras

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9

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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10

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Florence King

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11

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. Lawrence

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12

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

John Greenleaf Whittier

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13

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

Mae West

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14

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Mae West

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15

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Dorothy Parker

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16

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers -- because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Orson Welles

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17

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Edith Sitwell

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18

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Andrea Dworkin

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19

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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20

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Gertrude Stein

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21

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

Michel de Montaigne

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22

Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

W. H. Auden

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23

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

George Bernard Shaw

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24

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

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25

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

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26

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Swift

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27

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately

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28

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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29

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Barbara De Angelis

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30

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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31

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Alexander Pope

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32

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Julius Caesar

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33

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

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34

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Wyndham Lewis

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35

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

George Eliot

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36

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

J. M. Barrie

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37

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

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38

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Margaret Thatcher

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39

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Andrea Dworkin

Men
40

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jean Anouilh

Men
41

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Men
42

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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43

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Men
44

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Stendhal

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45

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

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46

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Men
47

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Phyllis McGinley

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48

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Oscar Wilde

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49

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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50

The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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51

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Wyndham Lewis

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52

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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53

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

W. H. Auden

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54

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Michel de Montaigne

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55

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Germaine Greer

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56

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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57

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Helen Rowland

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58

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

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59

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Men
60

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Gore Vidal

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61

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Helen Rowland

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62

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

Men
63

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Men
64

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras

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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

A true man hates no one.

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The little man is still a man.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.